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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Thick & Creamy Hot Chocolate!

I was going to post a lovely quinoa mexican recipe that I adapted last week but let's face it, it's the US Thankgiving weekend! Who wants to think healthy this week? Not me, I may not be American but I have dreams of stuffing and a turkey drumstick! So instead, I tried this recipe for 'Thick and Creamy Hot Chocolate.'

I've never been a hot chocolate fan--- even as a kid…. So weird, I may or may not have a serious chocolate addictionobession fancy but hot chocolate has no appeal to me in any which way. One day however, my girlfriends and I went to Marrakesh, this amazing chocolate shop in Toronto and I had their dark sipping chocolate… It seriously tasted like the inside of a Lindt chocolate… and I could not stop drinking it--- I couldn't sleep that night from all the caffeine but I digress.

Google to the rescue and I got the idea from Eating Well but adapted it just a bit for me and my crew:

Makes: 3 servings, more than 1/3 cup each

INGREDIENTS

1 and 1/8 cups milk-I used 2% as that’s what I had

1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

3 tbsp sugar

3/4 tbsp cornstarch

¼ spoon vanilla extract

1 dusting of cinnamon

PREPARATION

Combine milk, cocoa, sugar , vanilla and cinnamon in a large
saucepan.

Take a bit of the milk mixture and whisk it into the corn starch

Add slowly back to the saucepan

Cook over medium heat, whisking often, until steaming.

Continue to cook, whisking constantly, until it comes to a boil,
then remove from the heat.

Note, it's not exactly like hot chocolate… It is way more chocolately and much thicker… It does have that melty consistency of the Lindor Truffle.

It was very decadent and a perfect chocoholic's fix! I would recommend a highquality cocoa though like Ghiradelli although my Carmino Fair Trade cocoa was pretty great too. And wait for it…. according to Eating Well, it's less than 100 calories (with skim milk), low carb and contains 1 gram of saturated fat.

So as the weather goes to sub zero cools down, I highly recommend this for a perfect warm, easy after dinner treat!